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Definition: Seedy toe
Seedy
\Seed"y\, a. [Compar.
Seedier; superl.
Seediest.]
1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
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2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the
weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of
French brandy.
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3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and
miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as,
he looked seedy; a seedy coat. [Colloq.]
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Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we
say among us that practice the law. --Goldsmith.
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Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a
cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the
lamin[ae] and the wall of the hoof.
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